The Divine Feminine: Seeding New Myths for our Times

Would a greater valuation of the divine feminine, in all her guises, contribute toward a healing of our ‘ailing myth’? In responding to such a question we explore what it means to have a greater level of embodiment in an ensouled world.With this sensibility our three speakers and workshop leaders, all pioneers and diviners of where our old myths have led us, consider the possibility of a re-patterning and a new mythos.

Mary Condren, ThD, is a lecturer at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies in Trinity College Dublin and is author of The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland (1989). Her interdisciplinary work concerns the interface between worldviews and gender, with a specific focus on worldviews that promote violence. Mary’s research draws on mythology, political psychology, theology, psychoanalytic, philosophical and feminist theories. She is director of Woman Spirit Ireland, and has organised and resourced Festivals of Brigit (in Ireland and abroad) for over twenty five years.

Veronica Goodchild, PhD, has practiced as a Jungian psychotherapist for over 30 years, and is author of Eros and Chaos (2001) and Songlines of the Soul (2012). Veronica served as Core Faculty at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she taught Jungian and Imaginal Psychology, Depth Psychology and Alchemy, The Grail Myth, Depth Psychology and the Sacred, Jungian Psychology and Quantum Physics, Dreams, Soulful Research and Clinical Case Colloquia. Veronica retired from full-time teaching in 2015, and is now Professor Emerita, continuing her research and writing.

Marian Dunlea, MSc, is a Jungian analyst and a Somatic Experiencing Trauma therapist based in the west of Ireland, is the creator of Bodydreaming™ and author of BodyDreaming (2019). She is a core faculty member of the Marion Woodman Foundation and facilitates workshops nationally and internationally. Marian’s work combines Jungian Psychology, BodySoul Rhythms, Trauma Therapy, Psychosynthesis, Authentic Movement, Voice Work, Theatre and Embodied Dream Work. She has a particular interest in bridging the archetypal energies of the ancient landscape with the body’s neural pathways / storylines.

This event will be of especial interest to artists, therapists and those attracted to the field of Art and Psyche. Join us in also celebrating nine years of our part-time Certificate Course in Jungian Psychology with Art Therapy (Level 8, 10 credits).

SAMHAIN BODYDREAMING™ & CLAY MASK WORKSHOP

November 2 – 4, 2018with Marian Dunlea & Wendy Bratherton

Come and create a clay mask at Samhain, the time of year when the Cailleach, the Old Hag of Winter, makes her descent into the Underworld to incubate the seeds of the new life that will emerge at Imbolc, the Celtic spring.

We meet the Cailleach at the threshold of Winter in working with the damp, dark clay, learning to trust our impulses, listening to our dream images, feeling our senses engage with the prima materia of the raw clay. The mask begins to reveal itself and we begin to relate to the mask energy, the hidden face of the feminine.

Using a combination of Qigong and Biodynamic Craniosacral work, we will deepen into our bodies to see how our energy is moving and resonating at this time in the year’s cycle. The bodywork will prepare us to meet a body of “matter” – the clay – and to make contact with the Cailleach energy.

And we will experience BodyDreaming™, a way of working with dreams and images that tracks the pathways in the body where the energy of the dream is held. It invites us into the place of healing between body and dream, where old traumas, symptoms and complexes hold fast in the neural pathways of the body. When supported, the body may be ready to release this blocked energy and be restored to its inherent organic wisdom. Image and impulse align with greater ease and fluidity and we can feel the ground of our sensing body interweaving with psyche, recovering our connection with the living earth in a mutual participation.

Come and discover the mask that will take you into Winter, be your guide and companion in the times of descent and incubation.

Marian Dunlea M.Sc., IAAP, ICP, is a Jungian analyst and has been leading workshops internationally for the past 20 years integrating body and soul. With the development of her unique approach BodyDreaming™, Marian’s work has expanded to incorporate the developments in neuroscience, trauma therapy with Jungian psychology and the phenomenological standpoint
of interconnectedness. Her trainings include Jungian Analyst, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychosynthesis, Infant Observation, BodySoul Rhythms® and Somatic Experiencing.

Wendy Bratherton IAAP, BPC, CSTA, is a Jungian Analyst and Supervisor and a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist.
She integrates Craniosacral Therapy and BodySoul work into her Psychotherapy practice. She has worked as an Infant Observation Seminar Leader for twenty years and she trained in trauma work with Babette Rothschild. In the past she taught Ceramics. Recently she has held Qigong workshops for those recovering from cancer treatment.

“The Handless Maiden”

BodyDreaming™ Ongoing Professional Development Module

With Marian Dunlea & Sheila Langston

October 11 th – 14 th 2018 The Boghill Centre in the Burren, Ireland

“Only a girl like this can know what’s happened to you. If she were here she would reach out her arms towards you now, and touch you with her absent hands and you would feel nothing, but you would be touched all the same.” Margaret Atwood

“The Handless Maiden offers material for a woman’s entire life process, and covers a many-years-long journey. It is about women’s initiation through the rite of endurance, meaning to harden, to make sturdy, to make robust, to strengthen. Endurance means we are making something substantial.” C. Pinkola-Estes

What is it to be a woman today? What is it that is coming into consciousness individually and
collectively at this time of great change? What are the values that we cherish? How do we embody
this new consciousness? How might we find our own robust and sturdy action in a world which is
crying out for the touch of the feminine?

This workshop offers the opportunity to explore these questions through the story “The Handless
Maiden”, as well as through play, embodiment, discussion and BodyDreaming™.
BodyDreaming™ is a way of working with dreams and images that tracks the pathways in the body
where the energy of the dream is held. It invites us into the place of healing between body and
dream, where old traumas, symptoms and complexes hold fast in the neural pathways of the body.
When supported, the body may be ready to release this blocked energy and be restored to its
inherent organic wisdom. Image and impulse align with greater ease and fluidity and we can feel
the ground of our sensing body interweaving with psyche, recovering our connection with the
living earth in a mutual participation.

Marian Dunlea, M.Sc., IAAP, ICP, is a Jungian analyst who has been leading workshops internationally for the past 20 years integrating body and soul.
With the development of her unique approach BodyDreaming™, Marian’s work has expanded to incorporate the developments in neuroscience, trauma therapy with Jungian psychology and the phenomenological standpoint of interconnectedness.
Her trainings include Jungian Analyst, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychosynthesis, Infant Observation, BodySoul Rhythms® and Somatic Experiencing.

Sheila Langston has over 30 years experience as a voice instructor and voice coach in Canada and Europe. With creative roots in theatre and dance, Sheila completed the Marion Woodman Foundation training and has been on Foundation teaching teams in Ireland, Mexico, Switzerland and the U.S.
She is currently a Diploma Candidate at the Zentrum analyst training centre in Switzerland, and works in Vancouver with clients in analysis as well as leading study groups and workshops.

Dates:from Thursday October 11 th at 3 pm to Sunday October 14 th at 3:30 pm.
Please arrive earlier so that you can have a cup of tea and settle into your room.

Continuous Professional Development: 25 hours CPDs

Location: The Boghill Centre in the Burren, Kilfenora, County Clare, Ireland. www.boghill.com

To further information:

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(For those who may have financial constraints, a limited number of bursaries are available and possibility of paying in installments: please contact Antoinette for more details).

DISCOVERING THE UNLIVED LIFEWITH BODYDREAMING™ AND MASK WORK

13th – 18th June 2018

Working with BodyDreaming™, mask work, art, voice and movement, we will connect more deeply to our bodies and psyche allowing our imagination to flow freely. Surrounded by the beauty of Skites on the edge of the Aegean sea, a source of calm and energy, we will give expression to the unlived life by making a mask.
We will then explore how to live the new energy that arises.

If you have already made a mask in a previous workshop, you may wish to bring it and work more deeply with it instead of making a new one.

Workshop Pricing

The cost of the workshop for 2018 will be:

Early Bird Rate: £ 660 / € 750 paid before 25th March 2018

Standard Rate: £ 730 / € 825 paid before 31st May 2018

A £175 / €200 deposit is required to secure a place on the Workshop. The deposit is non-refundable.

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This popular workshop is in its 11th year.
Numbers are limited. To avoid disappointment we encourage you to book early.

Accommodation pricing

All rooms are en-suite, air conditioned and many with balconies and sea views.

Pricing varies with room and single or double occupancy. Prices are in a range of €100-€160 per night, plus a special (excellent) €25 per day deal on lunches and dinners which we normally take together each day.

And, we usually have a bigger get together and meal on the last evening, for an extra €20.

Accommodation booking

All bookings can be made by emailing Skites.
We suggest you take a look at the web site(http://www.skites.gr) to see the different types of rooms.

…and make sure you tell Karin you will be attending the Mask Workshop.
There are normal accommodation cancellation fees – full details on booking.

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Course leaders

Sue Congram PhD CPsychol. GPO-EAGT, is a founder of the Leaderful Women Project, working in-depth with senior-level women. Sue is a founding director of Engendering Balance Ltd, a consultancy working with women-led learning in leadership.
Sue teaches Gestalt in Scandinavia, Greece and the UK and supervises students on theses for diploma qualifications.
She is on the core faculty of the Marion Woodman Foundation. Sue has authored and co-edited many books.

Marian Dunlea MSc, ICP, ISJA, IAAP, Jungian Analyst, Trauma Therapist, Core faculty of the Marion Woodman Foundation. Director and Trainer of the BodySoul Leadership Training Programme in Europe.
Creator of BodyDreaming™, an innovative approach to therapy that integrates somatic perspectives and Jungian analytical psychology. She teaches seminars and workshops internationally and is currently awaiting the publication of her book.

Pauline Sayhi Cert Ed., DMP is a Dance Movement Psychotherapist and worked for 20 years in Mental Health. She taught Arabic dance for 20 years and also has a background in Authentic Movement. Pauline has completed the leadership programme at the MWF with Marion Woodman, and she trained in trauma with Babette Rothschild. She is currently in her third year of advanced study in Dream Work at CCPE. She facilitates workshops on Reclaiming the Divine Feminine as well as BodySoul Movement.

SAMHAIN BODYDREAMING™ & CLAY MASK WORKSHOP

November 3 – 5, 2017with Marian Dunlea & Wendy Bratherton

Come and create a clay mask at Samhain, the time of year when the Cailleach, the Old Hag of Winter, makes her descent into the Underworld to incubate the seeds of the new life that will emerge at Imbolc, the Celtic spring.

We meet the Cailleach at the threshold of Winter in working with the damp, dark clay, learning to trust our impulses, listening to our dream images, feeling our senses engage with the prima materia of the raw clay. The mask begins to reveal itself and we begin to relate to the mask energy, the hidden face of the feminine.

Using a combination of Qigong and Biodynamic Craniosacral work, we will deepen into our bodies to see how our energy is moving and resonating at this time in the year’s cycle. The bodywork will prepare us to meet a body of “matter” – the clay – and to make contact with the Cailleach energy.

And we will experience BodyDreaming™, a way of working with dreams and images that tracks the pathways in the body where the energy of the dream is held. It invites us into the place of healing between body and dream, where old traumas, symptoms and complexes hold fast in the neural pathways of the body. When supported, the body may be ready to release this blocked energy and be restored to its inherent organic wisdom. Image and impulse align with greater ease and fluidity and we can feel the ground of our sensing body interweaving with psyche, recovering our connection with the living earth in a mutual participation.

Come and discover the mask that will take you into Winter, be your guide and companion in the times of descent and incubation.

Marian Dunlea M.Sc., IAAP, ICP, is a Jungian analyst and has been leading workshops internationally for the past 20 years integrating body and soul. With the development of her unique approach BodyDreaming™, Marian’s work has expanded to incorporate the developments in neuroscience, trauma therapy with Jungian psychology and the phenomenological standpoint
of interconnectedness. Her trainings include Jungian Analyst, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Psychosynthesis, Infant Observation, BodySoul Rhythms® and Somatic Experiencing.

Wendy Bratherton IAAP, BPC, CSTA, is a Jungian Analyst and Supervisor and a Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapist.
She integrates Craniosacral Therapy and BodySoul work into her Psychotherapy practice. She has worked as an Infant Observation Seminar Leader for twenty years and she trained in trauma work with Babette Rothschild. In the past she taught Ceramics. Recently she has held Qigong workshops for those recovering from cancer treatment.

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About BodyDreaming™

BodyDreaming™ is a way of working with dreams and images that tracks the pathways in the body where the energy of the dream is held.It invites us into the place of healing between body and dream, where old traumas, symptoms and complexes hold fast in the neural pathways of the body.

When supported, the body may be ready to release this blocked energy and be restored to its inherent organic wisdom.

Image and impulse align with greater ease and fluidity and we can feel the ground of our sensing body interweaving with psyche, recovering our connection with the living earth in a mutual participation .

Quotes

'This is your body,Your precious gift,Pregnant with wisdom you do not hear,Grief you thought was forgotten,And joy you have never known.'Marion Woodman

“If only we can bring the wisdom of the body to consciousness, spirit will no longer be homesick for home.”Marion Woodman, Leaving my Father's House.

“For what is the body? The body is merely the visibility of the soul, the psyche; and the soul is the psychological experience of the body. So it is really one and the same thing...Soul and body are not two things, they are one.”C.G.Jung, Zarathustra Seminars.

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